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Quotes Quiz & Answers




Poster: "Heather Swann" <swann@intercon.com>



Quotable Quotes Quiz
What famous man or woman said, or is reputed to have said:

1) Paris is worth a mass.
2) My kingdom for a horse.
3) To God I speak Spanish, to women Italian, to men French, and to my
horse,German.
4)Squire Henry means to play God
5) Give me chastity and continence, Oh Lord, but not just now
6) E pur si muove. (But it still moves)
7) Bold bawdry and open manslaughter.
8) ______, by the wrath of God, Queen of England
9) That day we read no further.
10) Had I but served God as diligently as I have served my King, he would not
have given me over in my grey hairs.
11) Will no man rid me of this meddlesome priest?
12)Kill them all, and God will know his own.
13) Brother, I am too old to go on my travels again.
14) Let the boy win his spurs.
15) Quick as boiled asparagus
16) Men will sooner forget the death of their father than the loss of their
patrimony.
17) Friends, Romans, countrymen: lend me your ears.
18) God hath given us the Papacy, not let us enjoy it.
19) Be of good comfort, Master Ridley, and play the man. We shall light this
day such a candle in England as (I trust), shall never be put out.
20) It was never merry in England while we had cardinals amoung us.
21) As we were saying yesterday....(beginning of his first lecture after 5
years in the Inquisitionís prisons).
22) What a good vassal, if he had a good lord.
23) En casa muy cuerda,en cama muy loca. (Prudent in household matters, but a
madwoman in bed.)
24) Non Angli, sed Angeli. (Not Angles, but Angels)
25) Quantíe bella giovanezza...(how lovely is youth, that ever flies...)
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1) Henry IV
2) Richard III
3) Emperor Charles V
4)Luther (of Henry VIII)
5) St Augustine (Confessions)
6) Gallileo
7)Roger Ascham(The Schoolmaster)
8)Eleanor of Aquitaine
9) Franceca da Rimini(Inferno)
10) Cardinal Wolsey
11) Henry II
12) Simon de Montfort
13) Charles II (in Hume)
14) Edward III (at Crecy)
15) Emperor Augustus
16) Machiavelli'
17) Marc Antony (Shakespeare)
18) Leo X (Giovani dei Medici)
19) Latimer (Foxe's Book of Martyrs)
20) Thomas Howard, 3rd Duke of Norfolk
21) Fray Luis de Leon
22) Said of El Cid (Canter de mio Cid)
23) Juan Ruiz, Archpriest of Hita (Book of Good Love)
24) Pope Gregory the Great
25) Lorenzo the Magnificent






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